The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used …

that highlights two predictions. First, larger gift amounts, holding education and income constant, is a proxy for altruism …). Second, those motivated by altruism will respond positively to appeals based on evidence, whereas those motivated by warm …

motivated only by pure altruism will work at a relatively high wage for the for-profit firm and then make charitable … sensitive to warm glow (“impure altruism”) depends on her income level. While the presence of “warm glow” feelings would seem to … clearly benefit charitable organizations, we show that impure altruism can create distortions in labor market choices. In some …

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …